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Adding Yum to CentOS 5

By eric

2008-10-30

I use a lot of VPS and often times, they don’t actually have yum to make my life easier. So here is a quick HOWTO on installing yum on a CentOS box. This assumes that you have rpm and wget already installed. Note: This will only work on CentOS 5.2 while the mirror is still active.

Run the following code in a temporary directory to download all the RPMs.